From: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
horms@kernel.org
Cc: achender@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 02/12] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:43:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922164318.447049-3-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922164318.447049-1-achender@kernel.org>
trans->conn_alloc() may allocate transport data for every path of a
multipath connection - rds_tcp_conn_alloc() does - which is why the
lost-creation-race exit of __rds_conn_create() loops over all npaths
when it frees the connection it just built. The passive-connection
exit right above it frees only path 0.
That is not a leak today: a passive twin is only created for an IB
loopback connection (an incoming TCP connect to a local address is
refused with -EOPNOTSUPP before it gets here), and the IB transport is
not multipath, so npaths is 1 on that exit. But the two exits express
the same "undo conn_alloc()" step in two different ways, and the
following patches add another exit of the same kind. Move the loop
into a helper and use it everywhere, so that the step cannot silently
diverge if a multipath transport ever grows a passive twin.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index b6c4beb50eaf..a96569a3ee9a 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -161,6 +161,22 @@ static void __rds_conn_path_init(struct rds_connection *conn,
cp->cp_flags = 0;
}
+/* Undo trans->conn_alloc(): it may have allocated transport data for
+ * every path of a multipath connection, not just for path 0.
+ */
+static void rds_conn_free_transport_data(struct rds_connection *conn,
+ int npaths)
+{
+ struct rds_conn_path *cp;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++) {
+ cp = &conn->c_path[i];
+ if (cp->cp_transport_data)
+ conn->c_trans->conn_free(cp->cp_transport_data);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* There is only every one 'conn' for a given pair of addresses in the
* system at a time. They contain messages to be retransmitted and so
@@ -316,7 +332,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
if (parent) {
/* Creating passive conn */
if (parent->c_passive) {
- trans->conn_free(conn->c_path[0].cp_transport_data);
+ rds_conn_free_transport_data(conn, npaths);
free_cp = conn->c_path;
kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
conn = parent->c_passive;
@@ -332,18 +348,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
found = rds_conn_lookup(net, head, laddr, faddr, trans,
tos, dev_if);
if (found) {
- struct rds_conn_path *cp;
- int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++) {
- cp = &conn->c_path[i];
- /* The ->conn_alloc invocation may have
- * allocated resource for all paths, so all
- * of them may have to be freed here.
- */
- if (cp->cp_transport_data)
- trans->conn_free(cp->cp_transport_data);
- }
+ rds_conn_free_transport_data(conn, npaths);
free_cp = conn->c_path;
kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
conn = found;
--
2.25.1
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2026-09-22 16:43 [PATCH net-next v6 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 01/12] net/rds: ib: don't enable interrupts in rds_ib_conn_free() Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 03/12] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 04/12] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v6 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
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2026-09-22 8:53 Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 02/12] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit Allison Henderson
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